Product Description
This is not another book about installing a home or "hobby" Wi-Fi system. Instead, this book shows you how to plan, design, install, and operate WLAN systems in businesses, institutions, and public settings such as libraries and hotels. In other words, this book is packed with serious information for serious professionals responsible for implementing robust, high performance WLANs covering areas as small as a coffee shop or as large as entire communities. Ron Olexa provides a solid foundation in RF/wireless theory as it applies to WLANs. His detailed, thorough coverage of propagation at GHz frequencies helps you understand the mysteries of WLAN coverage (such as how it can change from season to season due to foliage). You'll also learn about antenna radiation patterns and gain so you can design you WLAN to have the coverage you need without causing interference to (or suffering interference from) other WLANs. * Covers the widely used 802.11 family, as well as the new 802.16 and 802.20 standards* Focuses on big commercial network implementations, such as in public buildings and businesses* Author has over 25 years of experience with cellular systems and wireless networks

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 3 reviews)

practical but the title is misleading by RF RDC

3 Stars
January 14, 2008
This book is a very practical approach to implementing outdoor 802.11 WLANs. However, you could get more info on WiMAx (802.16) and 802.20 from wikipedia. The author should have just stuck with 802.11 and used the recovered page space for a little more depth and breadth. I, personally, would not take this book as my only source for WLAN implementation; I see more technical complexity and business savvy involved than the author touches on. But the author does do a good job of describing what he does present and this alone is worthwhile. The book will help to frame up some technical details that don't always convey well from their mathematical underpinnings, or at least it will start you down the track to asking intelligent questions about the next step(s) you need to consider for your particular situation.

Very Sad by K. Crossman (berkshire, United Kingdom)

1 Stars
March 30, 2006
I waited a very long time to receive this book, because i was being lazy and did not want to write a training manual and an overview for my engineers about WiMax, so i looked around and was initially impressed by the title of the book and bought this book and wimax operators manual as a pair from Amazon, that was the worst purchase of December 2005. It was very clear that the author did not really know much about WiMax or the vendors would not let him break their NDAs, even so he could have gone the WiMax 802.16 standards direction instead, i read the book yawning all the way through and concluded that this was possibly ment for those new to WiFi only. I beleive that i could write a much more informative, technical and satifying WiMax book which can take the reader from WiF to WiMax, 3G and detail the planning, radio coverage and capacity planning and provide evaluation for the backbone network as a compklete package. Reading both books i felt cheated out of my money, as i was expecting a brain massage and got irretation instead, i am afraid i will not be recommending these books to anyone, as i felt it did not cover 802.16 or 20 but covered some instances of WiFi.

practical tone by W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)

4 Stars
January 29, 2005
In this rather slim book, Olexa packs in a lot of information. With a very practical bent. Aimed at someone who will be actually designing and implementing a wireless network in her company or home. Thus there are many small details discussed, that in practice may prove quite useful to a successful installation. Like weatherproofing the equipment in an outdoors environment. Or detecting and minimising noise sources. The theory is kept to a minimum. No abstruse maths. You should already be reasonably conversant with the main wireless concepts.

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